The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-05-07
0YER rue STATE.

Onl"u y ", saturday, voted 429
tpr to 4 against the i.suanc. Of sl5,
900 bonds for she purpose of building
curt house.
Nashville Banner: Three hundred
Fisk University stJdeuts are prepar-
ink to take the field for prohibition
n, soou as The school is closed.
Three hundred Norwegian emf
grants passed through ChAttanoog&
for Salt Lake City, whittier they 20
10 lin the Mormon colonies ia the
west.
Union City Anchor; The fence
that divides men from each other IN
the moral reform issue Of the day Is
made OF barrie wire. The "strad-
lers" will he likely to get hurt.
Bad Hart, section boss Of the Louis
Vile aud Nashville railroad company
at Springfield, Henry county, eloped
Nth the wife of his nephew, Geo.
Glover, for parts unknown last wsek.
Rev. j. ". Hoyt, b. d., of Nash
vile, All able minister and evangelist
1T the Presbyterian church, died in n
tit Of apoplexy at New Orleans lat
Friday evening, where he was con.
Quoting revival.
Another member of the Fowler
family, who were so strangely taken
with bleeding at the lungs near Ores.
den ten or twelve days ago, has died,
which makes the third membe of the
family that have been taken off by the
dsead disease.
Alamo Sentinel: A twelve year
old daughter of Mrs. Devough, Of
Gadsden, died very suddenly last
Saturday evening. She was taken
sick Saturday morning at 8 o'clock,
and died that evening at 8 o'clock, of
cerebro meningitis.
One hundred men went to Jim
xennedy's house, near Ralstou, last
week and ordered him TO leave the
county within twenty days. Kenne
dy has had innumerable difficulties,
and last fall Mr.. Carmichael shot
him with both barrels of a shotgun
and lie has just lately recovered.
Alamo Sentinel: Notwithstanding
the good cotton crop raised last year,
our people seem to he in worse con-
dition than they have been for mum.
her of years past. Our register in
forms us that up to date he has re-
corded third more mortgages than
have ever been recorded during the
whole of any past year.
GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf: James
Hamlet, probably the oldest citizen
of Montgomery county, both as to
residence and actual age, died at the
home of his son, j j Hamlet, on
First street, at 9 O'Clock Sunday night.
Mr.. Hamlet was born in Warren
county, N. G., Nov. %, 1895, and
was consequently nearly 80 years old.
The Martin Mail A mistake,
which came near proving quite seri-
Gus, was made by little Eddie Roach,
Monday, by taking dose of morphine
instead of quinine. Eddie is 10 or
Ia years old. and the nephew of Mrs.
Bill Kennedy, with whom he lives,
He was kept constantly walking for
several hours before be recovered
from his drOwsiness.
On the 18th of MAY the surviving
comrades of the gallant oily 9th Ten.
uessee regiment ard the citizens of
of Jackson will assemble at Riverside
cemetery to strew the graves of the
soldiers with the flowers Of spring and
IN observe the usual annual ceremo
.nies suitable to the occasion. DR.. d.
{. Kelley, of Nashville, will deliver
the Grafton. jackson Wing.
Jackson Blade: Jimmie Talbot
was play ing in the water last Saturday
at the river when a water moccssiu
snake bit him twice on the ankle be
was taken home and whisky poured
down him. He eat half plug Of
tobacco before he 90; home. A negro